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  • Letter: Elect Sanchez to SAD 51 board

    I am writing to encourage School Administrative District 51 residents to vote for Gigi Sanchez for School Board in the upcoming elections. I know Gigi through youth athletics, specifically girls lacrosse. She is a “roll-your-sleeves-up” person who is generous with her time and talents...

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    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • The Universal Notebook: Pictures of childhood

    One of the prize artifacts of childhood in our family is a photograph of my mother, age 4, standing on the wheel of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis as it sat on the sands of Old Orchard Beach in July of 1927. Two months before, Lindbergh had made history by making the first n...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • Probing Politics: The Legislature's taxing logic

    Here’s a question that most people outside the capitol in Augusta could answer correctly with very little policy background. If Maine wanted to encourage retaining high-wage manufacturing jobs would it A) increase the tax on fuel and electricity used in manufacturing or B) retain or even re...

    Tony Payne • Opinion •
    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  • Letter: Otten story a 'hatchet job'

    Most successful business owners have had setbacks in their careers. The proof of a successful career is one's ability to bounce back from tough times. Not only has Les Otten helped create many hundreds of jobs in the Bethel area, but most of these jobs still exist. Otten is still creating ...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:40 pm

  • Letter: Raise Beem's taxes, please

    Six years ago, in another of his soak-the-rich socialist screeds ("Who needs property tax relief," March 4, 2004), Edgar Allen Beem volunteered that less than $10,000 separated him from the poorhouse. In other words, he counted himself among that segment of the population consuming almost as much... 1

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:00 pm

  • Letter: Falmouth conservation plan goes too far

    Congratulation to the Falmouth Town Council for listening to residents and removing the 750-foot dimensional standard around vernal pools. Yet, a landowner with an insignificant vernal pool 10 feet across will have 4.69 acres of her land affected by this new regulation. Why? The state only regula...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 12:00 pm

  • Letter: When trees are trimmed, power stays on

    I would like to thank the town of Cape Elizabeth and Central Maine Power Co. for removing the trees and overgrowth along Sawyer Street between Eastman and Fickett streets last week. High winds consistently uproot trees and break branches near the utility lines, causing extended power outages to ...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:50 am

  • Letter: Paid sick days pay off for everyone

    The rules which govern the economy should move us towards good jobs, healthy families, environmental sustainability, respect for human rights and access to essential services. Paid sick days are necessary for our public health and workplace productivity and, frankly, just the right thing to do fo...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:20 am

  • Letter: Beem is wrong about taxes

    I can’t believe Edgar Allen Beem can be so out of touch with reality. At first glance, I thought "Raise taxes, please" was sarcasm. Then after reading the piece, I realized that he just doesn’t get it. Maybe he is a rich man, so maybe a few thousand dollars a year in extra taxe... 1

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:10 am

  • Letter: Investor has had enough of Otten

    Thank you for the revealing look into gubernatorial candidate Les Otten's past business dealings. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, it's an all too familiar story: CEO manages company into oblivion, then scampers away mostly intact while his employees and investors (of which I was o...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 9:50 am
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